Bug Report from www.isc.org:

Name: Tony Marques
Email: tm_iscbind@10am.com
Software Version: BIND 9.11.1
OS: Microsoft Windows
Subject:windows version detection/identification


Bug Detail
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/ [issue.1: -v output does not use STDOUT]
-v commands don't output version information via STDOUT or whatever but use ERROUT?
so "dig -v 2>nul:" will produce no output and can't be read via a "for /F %a in ('[cmd]')" batch command and "dig -v >file.txt" produces an empty file
while normal commands like 'dig +x ics.org 2>nul:' do output to console and can be used via "for /F" batch commands or can be piped to a file or other command

so -v is considered internal perfunctory/procedural output like a banner header rather than the objective/target data.
this should be fixed and produce output via STDOUT to the console or wherever.


/ [issue.2: no windows file properties]
Executables (and .dll files) are not stamped with the versions so you can't view the version via in the properties tab in Explorer 
nor utilize vbscript CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFileVersion( ... ) scripting and powershell commands also produce no results
gci dig.exe | % { "{1}`t{2}`t{0}" -f $_.Name, [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo($_).FileVersion, [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo($_).ProductVersion }
as would "filever.exe dig.exe" Microsoft support command
as would "sigcheck.exe -q -n dig.exe" sysinternals command

BINDInstall.exe (presumably because it is a Windows GUI program) is the only executable stamped with version information (except for vcredist_x64.exe from microsoft-- and libeay32.dll from openssl which are also stamped), but even the latest version is FileVersion: 3.0.0 (the main version info and also ProductVersion 9.10.0 -- not usually viewed) ... so this is not current or up-to-date and has remained the same for the multitude of releases over the past several years -- presumably since 2014 (per the copyright) and release 9.10.0.

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